Phillis Wheatley came to America on a slave ship, but soon became its first African-American poet with knowledge of Latin ans ...

In 1765, when Phillis Wheatley was about ... On February 11, 1774, Wheatley wrote Occum again, to comment on an indictment of slave-holding Christian ministers that he had written.

Then, she was not Phyllis Wheatley at all, but a young West African girl, wrenched from her family and sold to a slave trader. She was taken aboard the slave ship Phillis, which docked in the ...